MÔNICA TALLARICO PUPO

Mônica T. Pupo graduated in Pharmacy in 1990 from University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto campus, and then earned her PhD in Chemistry from Federal University of São Carlos in 1997. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Physics of São Carlos, USP, for one year and then she joined the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, USP, in 1998 as assistant professor. She was appointed as associated professor in 2009 and full professor in 2019. She was a visiting scholar at Professor Jon Clardy group (Harvard Medical School, USA) from 2006 to 2007. She coordinates the Laboratory of Microbial Chemistry (LQMo, PupoLab) and her research interests are focused on understanding the role of specialized metabolites in interspecies interactions in plant and insect microbiomes, and also natural products discovery for infectious diseases. Besides the lab research she enjoys going to the field to observe Nature and to collect biological samples. http://pupolab.fcfrp.usp.br/